The choice of the name “Artgender” derives from the consideration for which the brand that identifies a particular company that operates in the sectors of event planning, publishing and communication has never been used; for us art is a real type of human being, that is, who is deeper. Does not exclude anyone but renames a category, composed of very different people within… elsewhere I think, origin and direction; but, united by a single factor: the artistic one. Anyone can be or feel like an artist as long as he is concerned with producing or simply approaching any form of expression. Our identity is necessary, in things, in people, in words, in ways… that teaching contributes to formation ‘individual evolution.

11 September 2020

St. Peter’s Colonnade

St. Peter’s Colonnade

4 rows, 284 columns, 88 pillars and 140 statues overlooking the 320 meters of St. Peter’s #Colonnade built between 1657 and 1666 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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The original closed structure of St. Peter’s #Square amazed the faithful who, protected in this metaphorical embrace of marble, suddenly found himself in front of the majesty of the #Basilica
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At the center of the square a brick with a simple engraving “Center of the colonnade”.
From that point an optical #illusion allows to admire only the first row of columns, hiding all the others. How is it possible? Thanks to a brilliant intuition by Bernini: gradually increase the diameter of the columns to create this extraordinary visual effect

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Milo Zoia

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